–Learn what IP addresses are assigned to the default network gateway, the primary DNS server, and the secondary DNS server.

Task

1. Set up the Video Portal appliance hardware.

a. Unpack the equipment from its container and verify that all components are present.

b. Plug in the redundant power cables at the back of the appliance.

c. Plug in the network cable to Port 1 at the back of the appliance.

d. Connect the server appliance to a monitor using the VGA output in the back of the appliance.

e. Connect the server appliance to a standard PS2 keyboard using the purple PS2 port located in the back of the appliance.

f. Power on the appliance.

2. After you can see and read the "Start of First Boot" message, press Enter.

3. Specify the fully qualified hostname for the Video Portal appliance. You can enter either the DNS-routable hostname or the IP address, then select OK. For example: server.example.com

Caution We recommend that you do not use DHCP to obtain an IP address for your Video Portal appliance, due to the sometimes unpredictable expiration of IP addresses in DHCP systems and the administrative overhead of reconfiguring other devices to reestablish disrupted connections (for depoloyments or any other purpose). We further recommend that you do not change the static IP address that you assign to the appliance.

4. Enter IP address and routing information.

· If your appliance will obtain its IP address from a DHCP server, select Yes.

· If your appliance will use a static IP address, select No, so that you can enter the static network settings.

c. If the settings are correct, select Yes. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

8. Select the current month, year, and day.

a. Use the Tab key and the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate and change the selected values.

b. When you are done, select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Yes. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

9. Select the current hour, minute, and second. Use the format for military time (24 hours that increment from 0100 to 2400).

a. Use the Tab key and the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate and change the selected values.

b. When you are done, select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Yes. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

Caution Write down the selections that you make when you complete this task. You must make exactly the same selections later, when you configure the "supported media formats" for your DMM appliance in Task
17. If your selections differ in these two related tasks, your Video Portal might not work correctly.

10. Select the supported filetypes and formats for video encoding.

a. Select the media formats that your Video Portal will support (any combination of the options WMV, FLV, QT, and RM), then select OK and:

· If you selected two or more formats, specify the primary format, then select OK.

· If you selected three or more formats, specify the secondary format, then select OK.

· If you selected four or more formats, specify the tertiary format, then select OK.

b. Confirm your selections, then select OK.

Caution You must enter the instance name. If you do not, setup fails.

11. Enter the Video Portal instance name, then select OK twice.

12. Enter a password for the admin account. This is by default the account to use when you administer the appliance. The password that you enter must contain at least six characters. When you are done, select OK.

Tip We recommend that you use a strong password. A strong password has at least eight characters and contains numbers, letters (both uppercase and lowercase), and symbols.

13. Enter a password for the pwadmin account. This is the account to use if you forget your password for the admin account. When you are done entering the password, select OK twice.

After a moment, the appliance reboots and a login prompt is displayed.

–Learn what IP addresses are assigned to the default network gateway, the primary DNS server, and the secondary DNS server.

Task

1. Set up the DMM appliance hardware.

a. Unpack the equipment from its container and verify that all components are present.

b. Plug in the redundant power cables at the back of the appliance.

c. Plug in the network cable to Port 1 at the back of the appliance.

d. Connect the server appliance to a monitor using the VGA output in the back of the appliance.

e. Connect the server appliance to a standard PS2 keyboard using the purple PS2 port located in the back of the appliance.

f. Power on the server appliance.

2. After you can see and read the "Start of First Boot" message, press Enter.

3. Specify the fully qualified, DNS-routable hostname for the DMM appliance. You can enter either the DNS-routable hostname or the IP address. Select Change, then select OK. For example: server.example.com

Caution We recommend that you do not use DHCP to obtain an IP address for your DMM appliance, due to the sometimes unpredictable expiration of IP addresses in DHCP systems and the administrative overhead of reconfiguring other devices to reestablish disrupted connections (for depoloyments or any other purpose). We further recommend that you do not change the static IP address that you assign to the appliance.

4. Enter IP address and routing information. If your DMM appliance will obtain its IP address from a DHCP server, select Yes to enable DHCP. Alternatively, if your DMM appliance will use a static IP address, select No so that you can enter the static network settings.

c. If the settings are correct, select Yes. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

8. Select the current month, year, and day.

a. Use the Tab key and the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate and change the selected values.

b. When you are done, select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Yes. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

9. Select the current hour, minute, and second. Use the format for military time (24 hours that increment from 0100 to 2400).

a. Use the Tab key and the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate and change the selected values.

b. When you are done, select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Yes. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

10. Enter a password for the admin account. This is by default the account to use when you administer the DMM appliance. The password that you enter must contain at least six characters. When you are done, select OK.

Tip We recommend that you use a strong password. A strong password has at least eight characters and contains numbers, letters (both uppercase and lowercase), and symbols.

11. Enter a password for the pwadmin account. This is the account to use if you forget your password for the admin account. When you are done entering the password, select OK twice.

After a moment, the server appliance reboots and a login prompt is displayed.

12. Obtain a DMM software license key and use it to activate the DMM modules that you purchased.

a. At the login prompt, use the admin username and the password that you specified in Task 10 to log in to the Appliance Administration Interface (AAI).

In the displayed menu, the SHOW_INFO option is highlighted by default.

b. Press Enter, then write down:

· The IP address for your DMM server appliance.

· The serial number for your DMM server appliance.

c. Compose an email message that includes or identifies all of the following:

· The Cisco sales order number for your DMM purchase.

· The DMM server appliance serial number.

· Your email address.

· The name of your organization.

· The department name within your organization.

· The DMM module (or modules) that you purchased.

In addition, if you purchased the DMM module for digital signage, include the number of Cisco Digital Media Player (DMP) devices that you will manage centrally. Permitted increments for the number of DMP devices are multiples of 10.

· Scheduled Deployment Interval — The interval (in minutes) between automated cycles when DMM checks whether there are any scheduled deployments that it should process. This setting pertains only to scheduled deployments; immediate deployments start immediately.

· Default Content Provider — The content provider name to assign, by default, to any new program upon its creation. For example, you might enter the name of your organization.

· E-mail Server — The routable DNS name or IP address of the SMTP server through which DMM sends deployment and approval email messages automatically.

· Upload URL — The HTTP URL (including the TCP port number) that points to the subdirectory where you keep uploaded binary files temporarily on your DMM appliance. For example:http://dmm.yourdomain.com:8080/DMM/temp/video_portal/asset.

Caution You must not change the
Upload Path on Local File System value from its default, even though the field is editable. Deployments fail if you change it.

· Upload Path on Local File System — The complete file system pathname (starting from the root directory) that points to the subdirectory where you keep uploaded binary files temporarily on your DMM appliance. For example: /dm2/apache-tomcat/webapps/DMM/temp/video_portal/asset.

· Preview URL — The HTTP URL (including the TCP port number) that points to the private staging area on your DMM appliance.

Caution You must not change the
Preview Path on Local File System value from its default, even though the field is editable. Previews fail if you change it.

· Preview Path on Local File System — The complete file system pathname (starting from the root directory) that points to the staging area subdirectory on your DMM appliance. For example:/dm2/apache-tomcat/webapps/DMM/temp/video_portal.

· The URL to the live video portal — The HTTP URL that points directly to your public Video Portal.

· Default Audio Only Image — The SWF or non-progressive JPEG image to show as the thumbnail for every audio file. You must specify a file that is 100 pixels wide and 75 pixels high (or is any multiple of that size).

· Default Preview Image — The SWF or non-progressive JPEG image to show as a placeholder thumbnail image when no other preview image is available for a video file. You must specify a file that is 100 pixels wide and 75 pixels high (or is any multiple of that size).

· Supported Media Formats — The formats to support. Select any combination of Flash Video, Windows Media, Real, and MPEG4/H.264. The formats that you specify must be identical to the ones that you specified in Task 10. for your Video Portal appliance.

b. To save and commit your entries, click Save Portal Parameters.

18. Configure Video Portal deployment settings. You must deploy files to at least one remote location, because you cannot present them to audiences directly from your DMM appliance.

Note You cannot edit the values that pertain to Video Portal Metadata files.

a. To specify the deployment locations — which can differ for the different supported filetypes — select Setup > Deployment Locations, then enter all of the following values for each supported filetype that you selected in Task 17. Any invalid entries will cause deployments to fail:

· Connection type — The protocol or method for file transfer (the options are FTP, SFTP, and SCP).

· Host address — The DNS-routable hostname or IP address of the remote server where you will deploy files of the relevant filetype.

· Login name — A user account name that has the required privileges to access the remote server.

· Login password — The assigned password for the login name that you specified. If you select the SFTP option for deployments to your Video Portal appliance, the password that you enter must be exactly the same as your Video Portal admin password.

· Root file directory — The absolute directory path to files that you will deploy.

g. To ensure that the content and metadata deployed appropriately, use another computer on your network to access the Video Portal that you installed.

19. Discover the DMPs in your network. If you purchased a DMM-DSM license to centrally manage multiple Cisco Digital Media Player 4300G (DMP) devices, DMM can autodiscover your DMPs and organize them into groups for simplified and remote management of your DMPs anywhere globally.

a. Select Digital Signage Module from the the untitled list at the top far-right of any page.

b. To log in to DMM-DSM for the first time, enter the username admin and the password default.

Note To protect your DMS investment, we recommend that you change the DMM-DSM administrative password at your earliest opportunity. To learn how to change the password, see User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 on Cisco.com.

· Name — A short and meaningful group name that applies equally well to every DMP in the specified range. For example, you might indicate that devices in this group are all located in Boston or Singapore.

· Description — A longer description of the group, its purpose, its policies, or anything else.

· Discovery IP range — The range of IP addresses in which DMM should autodiscover DMPs.

Related Documentation

For a comprehensive list of related documentation, see Documentation Map for Cisco Digital Media System 4.0 on Cisco.com.

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This document is to be used in conjunction with the documents listed in Documentation Map for Cisco Digital Media System 4.0 on Cisco.com.

Any Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used in this document are not intended to be actual addresses. Any examples, command display output, and figures included in the document are shown for illustrative purposes only. Any use of actual IP addresses in illustrative content is unintentional and coincidental.